In most movies, we don’t see characters with problems that they easily solve. Nobody would care about that. We’re intrigued when things go rotten and keep getting worse! We’re captivated by the person living through it all. It’s more important to us how that event changes the protagonist than how the problem is solved.
Similarly, our audience is fascinated to see what happens to us, or what happens to their fellow audience members, and how those events change us.
The audience cares more about us than the magic we do. It’s a human thing.
That means that we can venture outside the two-dimensional character we usually hide behind. A character that we’ve created for the audience only builds a barricade between our sensitive ego and an audience who wants to get to know us.